~ WHERE, O WHERE, YOU wonder– ye few who are still checking in– is that ever-whinging WebElf? Living in the fun-filled Book of Job, and scratching myself with potsherds.

Toof Diagnosis

Thus, the first tooth problem is roughly 80% better– but there’s still pain.. and so the good dentist who recently pulled tooth #1 did some more probing, x-ray, and tooth-testing this morning.

Wait for it….

It turns out that if you do an un-asked-for root canal, drop a bit of dental file in it, and then leave the bottom 25% of the root unfixed, that not only are you risking tooth abscess, but neighbouring teeth are in danger, too, via inflamed & rotting nerves.

It’s Like A Party!

The result? A brand new new Root Canal to be excavated on Friday for 2 hours, on the next tooth in line.. which is indeed infected, and threatening a new abscess, despite 3 weeks of strong antibiotics. Oh, and more antibiotics to follow that treatment. Ha ha, whee!

What with my general poor health & abiding slow recoveries, so it goes… thank you so VERY much, O Rapacious Botchmeister Dentist Of Evil who started this slow series of dental implosions in my head 4 years ago.

So What, Elf?

Prayers please, and patience. I do apologize for that burst of bloggy activity a a month ago, and now nothing. I just don’t have it in me with the pain, anti-biotic hangover, fevers, and general exhaustion to spend a lot of energy blogging. A few essays have percolated in my addled noggin, but not much else.

If anybody is inclined, feel free to send along Amazon loot to cheer up your stricken servant. All prayers and notes of encouragement would also be timely, and very welcome.. I’m seriously worn to a nub by stress, pain, tiredness, infection, and waiting around to get better.

~ DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!! “Canada’s Anglican Primate Fred Hiltz wants Rowan Williams to convene an emergency meeting to deal with The Single Greatest Evil In The History Of Both Christianity And The World, Way Worse Than The Crusades, Justifying Slavery, Not Ordaining Women, Declaring Homosexual Sex A Sin And The Church’s Obvious And Enthusiastic Support For War, Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, Death, Voting For Conservative Republicans And Every Other Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Thing That Ever Happened In The History Of The World, A History Which, Quite Frankly, Would Have Been A Hell Of A Lot Nicer Had The Church Stopped Being Such Unbelievably Evil Bastards And Shut Itself Down A Long Time Ago If You Ask Me” …. (mcj.blog)

~ CATHOLIC BY ASSOCIATION– The DCCC’s dishonest attacks on a Catholic group: “Keith Fimian is an officer of an organization that promotes a group so extreme they encourage women to be more submissive” …. (NRO)

~ FIRST PRINCIPLES– Love is stronger than Death, says Pope. The pope urged thousands of faithful marking the 150th anniversary of a miracle in France to discover “a journey of faith and conversion”. He reminded listeners of persecution of Christians in India and the Muslim world …. (speroforum)

~ TOTALITARIAN ATHEISM has taken another scalp. Michael Reiss, the Royal Society’s embattled director of education, has been forced out – for daring to suggest that children should be taught to discuss alternative views and subject them to the scrutiny of empirical reasoning …. (spectator)

~ GYAPONG ON new liturgy for the Catholic Church …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ EVOLVING Beyond Darwinism– Let’s call the Darwinists’ bluff and find out who really believes in evolution. Time to separate the men from the bonobos, the chimps from the champs, Overmen from the Olbermann …. (onecosmos.blog)

~ CREATIONISM and the advance of counterknowledge …. (damian_thompson)

~ AN UNSEEN ENEMY OF FREEDOM, By Henry Lamb: “From the highest rafters of academia comes another enemy of freedom: communitarianism. This is a belief system that opposes both authoritarianism and individualism, and promotes instead, a social organization that is governed by policies designed by civil society to limit individual freedom as required for the benefit the community. Dr. Amitai Etzioni is credited with founding this communitarian movement” …. (canadafreepress)

~ HILLARY’S GOD– “According to Paul Kengor, religion was central to the creation of Hillary Clinton as a liberal activist and ambitious Democratic politician. Specifically it was her social gospel brand of Methodism that shaped her youth” …. (ird)

~ WHY LIBERAL PACIFISTS are better than you: “In a feature that runs every Monday in The Washington Post under the heading: “Department of Human Behavior,” a Mr Shankar Vedantam regularly provides grateful readers of that organ with scientific proof that the sort of liberal and progressive attitudes that most of them harbor are more, well, scientific, than the alternatives” …. (newcriterion)

~ PUNDITA– “The silence was broken only by the rustling of the wind, the cry of gulls and the occasional thump of helicopter rotors” …. (pundita.blog)

~ MORE CHILDREN in Britain have televisions in their rooms than fathers in their homes …. (anglocath.blog)

~ OPPORTUNISTIC LIES FOR– YOUR OWN GOOD, OF COURSE– AIDS epidemic? It was a ‘glorious myth’.. The author of 1987’s The Truth About the AIDS Panic welcomes two new whistleblowing texts on the opportunism of the AIDS industry …. (spiked-online.com)

~ VIDEO: On Unborn Victims of Crime, Stephane Dion is NOT a leader …. (bluewavecanada.blog)

~ THE SAD TRUTH.. “I don’t rely on the doctor anymore. These days, you have to look out for yourself.” …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ STEPHANE AS.. RED GREEN? “A whole new Stephane: Liberal strategists have decided that Stephane Dion, a man with all the appeal of tepid oatmeal, all the oomph of a flat soufflé, all the pizzazz of a watery blancmange, could use a bit of a makeover. They want to transform him from Stephane Dion, Soporific Wimp, to Stephane Dion, Outdoorsman and Fierce Eco-warrior”; Blame Sumpin’ Else Part Deux: Dion and the gals to get manly makeover right after ballet class …. (scaramouche, sda)

~ SHAIDLE WONDERS– “Is anyone else sick of hearing about Mouseland, Tommy Douglas’s fable… trotted out each election by political activists still living in the 1960s?” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ STANDING FAST against decadence: “The rule of artistic quality is threatened everywhere but at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where director Philippe de Montebello has stood for thirty years against the decadence of the contemporary museum world” …. (newcriterion.com)

~ CARDINAL KASPER– the good cop of ecumenism–tells the hard truth at Lambeth …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ PLEASE GIVE NOW! “Bishops stuff their faces, then ask for money”– From the Church Nobody Goes To Anymore, to help cover “a light snack of cold lemon and thyme scented breast of chicken with fresh asparagus and porcini mushroom relish, summer bean and coriander, tomato, basil and mozzarella served with hot minted new potatoes. To follow: dark chocolate and raspberry tart with raspberry ripple ice cream, topped off with coffee and white chocolate raspberries. To drink: Pino Grigio or Shiraz, or cranberry and elderflower fruit punch”.. all coming after a protest march for the abolition of world hunger …. (fivefeetoffury, reformedpastor)

~ A GREAT PIECE by Douglas Farrow on Humanae Vitae …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ THE CASE AGAINST paternity leave: “Nicola Brewer, the head of the Equalities And Human Rights Commission, wants to ‘rethink’ family policy and give fathers the same rights and responsibilities as mothers. I am always amazed with the hubris of government officials who think that they can undo biological realities” …. (soberingthoughts.blog)